Iran
Number of CERN users
23 (January 2013)
CERN contact
Participation in CERN Experiments
Participation in CERN Accelerator Projects
CLIC/CTF3
WLCG Participation
Iran has a strong intellectual tradition, which has been manifest in theoretical physics and engineering, in particular. CERN maintained contacts with individual Iranian theoreticians, notably from the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM) and from the Sharif University of Technology (SHUT) in Teheran. CERN has hosted Iranian theorists, and several individuals of Iranian origin participated in the CERN experimental programme.
At present Iran is making a renewed and strong effort to tighten its relations with CERN and its scientific community, based on an International Cooperation Agreement which was signed in 2001.
The participation of Iran in CMS is coordinated by the IPM. Iran has contributed to CMS by the construction of detector components; presently Iran is contributing to the data analysis and preparing for future Upgrade activities on CMS. In addition, some students are working at CERN for training in CLIC (as Observer). Iran is also participating to the Grid infrastructure; the IRAN-GRID CA is hosted by IPM.
Every year students and teachers participate to the Summer Student and Teacher programmes at CERN.